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Funny violent moment on Happy Three Friends

Posted by ChurpChurp Birdy on 8:47 AM
          "Lalala lalalala lalala lalalala" The rhythm of the intro is still fresh in my mind right now. I was exposed to this funny violent cartoons series- Happy Tree Friends when I was around 18 years. Yes, I was too old for watching such cartoons during middle adolescent time but nothing weird, I had a lot of fun watching it but seriously it still terrify me until now. I followed the trend of watching since it had been shared crazily around by my friends through the social networking sites but initially "addicted" to it when I first viewed on Youtube. With the childish appearance and the cute name, everything seems like fairy tale telling you the happily ever after stories of three friends. BUT WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT WHAT YOU GET! The truth is horrifying. Out of any of my expectation, the show is extremely violent with almost every episode featuring massive of blood, pain and grim death! For which I couldn't stand to see were the portrayal of their death was so clear in mind as its vividly graphic and exaggerated. Watch the video below and you will know how exactly i feel when i was watching this! Cutting eyeballs and squeezing the blooooody eyeball "juice" to make drinks? It really disgusting. It's definitely a blowout on Youtube for many people especially since 5 years ago and surprisingly now established an official website for Happy Tree Friends (See here). 




           
          The video series content was strictly forbidden for children under 12 because it denotes too much violence and blood which for sure making some kids pee in their pants after watching. From the media perspective, this video is gory,ultra-violent, cynical and black-humored. Knowing that unlike us in the past, having our first social networking site account in early 15, children nowadays they set up account for Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and etc in early childhood since learning information technology is like fingertips for them. Hence, the possibility of them encountering this kind of violence and brutality featured video shared vigorously online is rather high. With the featuring of cute name and adorable appearance, children and early adolescent are the main consumer of violence in this case since they are more attracted to it. 


           Regardless of whether the violence is rewarded or punished, who is the perpetrator is, and what is the motive of the violence, it was found that violence affects the likelihood of the video viewer in learning the aggressive behavior form the violent content (Dowd, Singer & Wilson, 2006: 185). An interesting characteristic of this brutality denoted video is the innocence after violence and murder committal. Seems like it conveyed a false message of violence and murder committal is not a wrongdoing but an accident which happened coincidentally. 



There's no real proof of violent featured video will causes the children or adolescent engage in aggressive behavior but there is a likelihood of being brutal just like what we seen in picture above. Cuddly character but gory in nature. Wondered who still loves it. =) 








Reference: 
Dowd, N.E., Singer, D.G. & Wilson, R.F. (2006). Handbook of Children, Culture and Violence. Retrieved from    Google Books. 

4 Comments

chia chia says:
June 14, 2012 at 10:50 AM

ya, there is no any evidence to prove that violence video can leads to aggressive and violence life among child and young people. But, we cannot deny that there are some issues about the child imitate the violence act that they observe from the television. I think that violence cartoon show more influence child's thinking. Most of the cartoon show reflect that although the cartoon have injured or killed they still alive and feel well. Thus, child may don't think that violence act is the dangerous act and can cause death. Thus, children need to be educated the logical and accurate information since they still young and have immature thinking even it is only a cartoon show.

JessicaKok says:
June 14, 2012 at 9:52 PM

"this is done by a highly trained and professionals, children at home please do not imitate or learn"
This is the phrase that we always see from tv show - much consideration were being when it is broadcast nationally.
However, when it comes to social media, such as youtube - everyone can post and upload whatever they want, certainly, not much consideration were being given - users usually do not think about the consequences or the impact that the contents might bring.
This is why you see - even cartoon as violent and vulgar as happy tree friends are literally free for everyone to watch. Restriction on youtube that does not allow users below 12 years old to watch is not really effective - anyone can fake their information and watch those "forbidden" contents.

Maria Ng says:
June 15, 2012 at 1:50 AM

Haha. I remember these videos back when I was younger then. Happy Three Friends was the hit, when everyone I knew would know of this gory, violent and yet humorous cartoons. However, the pertinent issue here is not that video sharing such as Happy Three Friends would influence violent behavior amongst those who watched them, but rather how online users or individuals utilize information from such video and apply them in their daily lives. So sharing such videos is not necessarily the factor in provoking violence in us, it is a form of entertainment which should be handled with care.

ChurpChurp Birdy says:
June 16, 2012 at 6:31 PM

Of course it does. Seemingly the children can be out of control and still they are expected to handle the issue with care yet it's really debatable since whether there is parental control or right teaching of use, the provoking and exciting feature of violence might represent the noise and disrupt the receiving of right use of information.

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